FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: George Henne NS BASIC Corporation 416 264-5999 NS BASIC screams with Apple MessagePad 2000! October 28, 1996 NS BASIC Corporation announced full support today for the new Apple MessagePad 2000. "The new unit from Apple," said George Henne, President of NS BASIC, "dramatically increases the speed of NS BASIC applications - they scream!". NS BASIC with Visual Designer is a full implementation of the well known BASIC programming language with extensions to take advantage of the rich Newton environment. It allows easy and rapid development of applications, allowing essential business operations to take place away from the office. Using NS BASIC, applications can easily be created that integrate internet email, news and web services with databases on the MessagePad 2000. Communications with both Windows and Mac computers are also made much easier with NS BASIC. The Visual Designer allows users to sketch out the format of an input screen or form on their Newton. As the properties of the visual objects are changed, the display updates dynamically. A full set of Newton objects is supported, including sliders, pop up lists, date, time and number pickers, scrolling text, checkboxes and more. NS BASIC includes a 240 page manual as well as Windows and Mac format diskettes. Sample code is included as well as Technical Notes on advanced programming techniques. NS BASIC is aimed at corporate, business and educational users who need strong communications capabilities and a development environment that can run directly on the MessagePad 2000 or from Windows, Macintosh or Unix platforms. It allows the development of applications for the mobile professional as well as vertical market solutions. NS BASIC is being used in business, personal productivity, education, scientific and manufacturing applications. Newton extensions in NS BASIC include fully indexed file I/O, handwritten input, serial, modem and infrared communications, windowing and buttons. Applications can create their own files or access built-in system information, such as Spreadsheets, Addresses, Notes and Calendar entries. NS BASIC has thousands of users worldwide, in over 35 countries. It is being used by business, government, research and universities. NS BASIC is available for $99.00 USD plus shipping directly from NS BASIC Corporation (416 264-5999) or from its dealers. NS BASIC Corporation can also be reached at 77 Hill Crescent, Toronto, Canada M1M 1J3, fax (416) 264-5888, or at www.nsbasic.com. Apple, eMate, Newton and MessagePad are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the USA and other countries. All other brand names mentioned are registered trademarks of their respective holders, and are hereby acknowledged.